Numbers 4:23

23 from {those twenty years old} and above until {fifty years old}; you will muster them, all who come to help to do the work of the tent of assembly.

Numbers 4:23 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 4:23

From thirty years old and upward, until fifty years old,
shalt thou number them
Take an account how many there are of that age, and so fit for service ^F1; (See Gill on Numbers 4:3);

to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation;
as the rest of the Levites; see ( Numbers 4:3 ) ;

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FOOTNOTES:

F1 (abu abul) "ad militandum militiam", Montanus, Drusius.

Numbers 4:23 In-Context

21 Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,

22 "{Take a census} of the descendants of Gershon also, according to {their families} and clans,

23 from {those twenty years old} and above until {fifty years old}; you will muster them, all who come to help to do the work of the tent of assembly.

24 This [is] the work of the clans of the Gershonites: to serve and to carry.

25 They will carry the curtains of the tabernacle and the tent of assembly [and] its covering and the covering of {fine leather}, which {is on top of it}, and the curtain of the doorway of the tent of assembly,

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "a son of twenty years"
• [b]. Literally "a son of fifty years"
• [c]. Or "count," or "summon," or "enroll"